Screw the latin script and its derivatives.

Prevent the rise of the Roman Republic and have them confined to Italy. Have stronger Hellenistic and Carthaginian influences.
That is waaaaay before the pod. I mean like having some French civil war that results in a permenant division with each nation being too weak to project significant power for example.
 
Unlikely at best-- wartorn western europe is gonna be looking for ways to get cash to rebuild. Oh look, a bunch of rich kingdoms with not very much weapons in Asia! Time to get the cash we need!
Who's to say western europe still has the resources to colonize asia when they had a large amount of industry destroyed and manpower reserves exausted? Remember, colonialism is expensive.
 
  • The Soviets manage to make it to the Rhine and they decide to force all the nations they conquer to adopt Cyrillic script.
  • Biafra breaks off of Nigeria. Nigeria, now mostly muslim and dominated by the Hausa-Fulani, reverts to Arabic script. Nigeria proceeds to merge with Niger, which is mostly Hausa-Fulani (about 60%) and Arabic script spreads there.
  • East African Governments (Kenya, Tanzania, an East Congo under Gizenga, Katanga, Rwanda, and Burundi) opt to use Swahili as the language of government rather than English or French. In doing so, they opt to use the Arabic script for Swahili rather than Latin Script.
  • Vietnam never switches to Latin script
  • The Central Asian Turkic states and Azerbaijan never switch to Latin Script, instead keeping Cyrillic
  • Serbia/Yugoslavia remains in control of Bosnia, Montenegro, and Kosovo. As a middle-finger to Europe, they don't allow for any use of Latin Script
  • Emperor Bokassa, in his madness, switches to Arabic script
 
  • The Central Asian Turkic states and Azerbaijan never switch to Latin Script, instead keeping Cyrillic

  • The Soviets manage to make it to the Rhine and they decide to force all the nations they conquer to adopt Cyrillic script.
Given that the OP has stated that he doesn't want any Greek descendants either, Cyrillic won't work :\

(Hell, given that the Greek alphabet is basically just a mirrored Phoenician alphabet, we might wanna exclude any of that one's descendants as well, which includes things from Arabic to Mongolian)
 
Given that the OP has stated that he doesn't want any Greek descendants either, Cyrillic won't work :\

(Hell, given that the Greek alphabet is basically just a mirrored Phoenician alphabet, we might wanna exclude any of that one's descendants as well, which includes things from Arabic to Mongolian)

Technically, Arabic and most of everything alphabetic east of Syria derives from the Aramaic scripts, not from Phoenician ones. Of course, both share a common source (attested in Proto-Sinaitic, though it is a misnomer).
Anyway, the Greek family of scripts did change from its Phoenician antecedents in much more than just reversing the dominant direction of writing: for instance, they consistently added vocalic notation, which few Semitic scripts did (though it happened).
 
Could any country be convinced to dump the latin script?
Unlikely at best. It works very well with the Indo-European languages of Latin and Germanic descent, which dominate the continent even if the empires fall. The ones outside of that sphere use the Cyrillic Alphabet, Devanagari, or the Arabic Script.
 
Unlikely at best. It works very well with the Indo-European languages of Latin and Germanic descent, which dominate the continent even if the empires fall. The ones outside of that sphere use the Cyrillic Alphabet, Devanagari, or the Arabic Script.
Of course not in Europe. But I mean elsewhere. Like Oromo rejecting latin in favor of Ge'ez for example.
 
Could any country be convinced to dump the latin script?

Perhaps in a scenario in which the USSR becomes even more powerful during WWII and occupies most of continental Europe. Cyrillic becomes associated with modernity and increases the ease of learning Russian, the emerging lingua franca of Europe (and perhaps even the world).
 
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